Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McGann is leaving to take a permanent post as assistant professor of History at the University of Texas. He taught all the History Department's courses on Latin America: Social Sciences 133, An Introduction to Latin American Civilization; History 177, History of Colombia and Venezuela, and History 178, History of Colombia in alternating years; and a graduate seminar in Latin American History...
...study is Project FIRO-B--Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation, being conducted by William C. Schutz, lecturer and research associate for the Department of Social Relations. The study was launched last fall for the purpose of determining what factors are most important in the selection of roommates...
Second Thoughts. As the crisis lengthened, the usefulness of all-out U.S. aid to Chamoun's regime became more and more questionable. The U.S. police gear and tanks arriving by plane and ship seemed unlikely to promote order where order finally depends on a balance between religious, social and political forces none of which is strong enough to dominate the country...
...this is far indeed from the spirit of wholesome controversy which informed the old debate. The essence of an old-fashioned debate was its recognition that profound, even violent, disagreement was a natural part of the human and social process. It was habitual to speak of a debate as a fierce debate or a hot debate, and these adjectives were used, not disparagingly, but in admiration. Adversaries are no more, except-if you will-on programs like those of Mike Wallace or John Wingate, where there is but a shallow pretense of intellectual substance. The panel has moderated them...
What worries Galbraith is "the myth that production is the central problem of our lives." This concept of social efficiency, says Galbraith. originated in the days of Adam Smith in an era of scarcity. The classic economists have repeated it; the public has echoed them. Now it is obsolete: the present-day economy not only turns out all the goods needed but spends much of its energy whetting the consumers' appetites for things they do not need. The consequence of this lack of "social balance" is that production, largely in private hands, has far outdistanced services, which Galbraith seems...